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Sunday, January 27, 2008

the wee hours

Banned Candy is Delicious!

We went shopping for paper towels today, and returned home with a few packs of banned Ice Breakers Pacs.  Okay, they’re not banned, but Hershey’s has been told to stop making them because they “allegedly” look too much like packages of drugs.  I think it’s silly.  They’re obviously candy and the little bag that they’re in melts in your mouth…like those candies in the foreign foods aisle at the grocery store that have the rice paper wrapper that melts in your mouth.  I think they’re Chinese…or are they Japanese?  I don’t remember, but I really like them.  We did buy some extra Ice Breaker Pacs in case we could sell them for vastly inflated prices on eBay.  I was curious enough that I had to open one of the packages.  We only found orange, so we can only rate the flavor of them…and I find them to be delicious.  I’m sad that they’re not going to make them anymore, now that I’ve found them.  I know I’d love the mint ones even more.

Here’s a picture of the bad bad candy.  Because the candy has forced me into a life of drugs, I immediately went to my bathroom counter and took some eyedroppers full of Oxyfast.  Mmm, mmm, good, the life o’ drugs.  Okay, not really.  The Oxyfast doesn’t taste very good and I wouldn’t recommend it.  It’s very very expensive and I’m not all that impressed with the results, even though I’m also wearing a Fentanyl patch.  I guess that means I should tell you about our new Fibro doctor, since he’s the one who has prescribed the new meds for us.  He’s trying to get us both on Lyrica - my insurance company wouldn’t pay for my Lyrica without prior authorization, which of course, I didn’t know about.  I’m hoping I can get my money back, because I wanted to get the meds.  I had a trial week, plus a couple sample bottles that last another few days (the dosage is higher than I’ve had previously - it’s the dosage recommended for Fibro patients) and I felt so much better when I was taking it (I took a week or so off when the samples ran out) that I paid for the $130 prescription.

Whoops, I promised the picture, huh?

I’m writing a letter to Hershey’s complaining about them halting the production of the Ice Breakers Pacs.  They’re not really made for kids, and as an adult, I think I can handle having mints in my possession that might bear a resemblance to heroin or cocaine or whatever they say they look like.  They’re tasty and they aren’t drugs, so that’s all that should matter.